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MEL-kee-or
Melchior
OriginDutch from Hebrew
Meaning"city of the king; king of light"
GenderBoy
About Melchior
The name Melchior peaked for boys at #2754 in 1915.
Popularity & trends
US popularity — history
US rank, lower is more popular · SSA data 2014–2025
Actual · SSA
20142025
18802025
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Famous Melchiors
- Saint Melchior
one of the three Magi
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Dutch bird painter
- Melchior Lengyel (born Lebovics Menyhért)
Hungarian novelist and playwright
- Melchior Anderegg
Swiss mountaineer
- Melchior Ndadaye
4th President of Burundi
- Melchior Hoffman
German Anabaptist prophet and leader
- Melchior Klesl
Austrian statesman and cardinal
- Melchior Lobkowicz
son of Prince Maximilian & Princess Alina Lobkowicz
- Melchior Franziskus Ansi
Polish,German baroque painter
- Friedrich Melchior
Baron von Grimm, German,French journalist, art critic and diplomat
Melchior in pop culture
- Melchior Gabor
main character in musical "Spring Awakening"
- Melchior
villain in animated series "Teen Titans"
- Melchior Sturmthal
banner,bearer of Berne in Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein" (1829)
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One of the three Magi computers in Japanese anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
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